How to Grow a School Garden

Two weeks ago, students returned to their St. Joseph School in Wilmette to find the playground transformed.   Ten-foot sunflowers lined a chain-link fence, while winged gourd vines and trombetta squash plants carpeted the ground. Heirloom beans, herbs, Swiss chard and zucchini plants overflowed from the raised beds set in a series of 6-foot farm […]